Comment on newspaper story prompts lawsuit
November 14, 2011 at 7:43 am in River Falls Journal
A comment posted on a Hudson Star-Observer story on the company’s website is cited as grounds for a lawsuit against the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Department and investigator Brent Standaert. Continue Reading
How sad a commentary on our supposedly inclusive and enlightened society that the article states that “Borsgschatz has been exposed to public ridicule, contempt, anxiety and disgrace and the plaintiff’s standing in the community has been injured, causing severe mental anguish and distress,” because of a comment by a co-worker that implied she was a lesbian.
It did not imply that she was incompetent nor in error. Nor that she was immoral. Apparently the “slur” that she could perhaps be a dreaded Lesbian was enough to do the job. I’m sorry for Cathy that this happened to her, and sorry for Brent Standaert that he is so insensitive (to put the best light on his comments), but even sorrier for the rest of us that saying such a thing about a woman is considered derogatory and can do such harm to her, to actual Lesbian women, and to our community.
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